That’s an excellent use of technology, Jim — and I can’t imagine why any bishop could possibly object, especially given these two facts:

1. The church intalls organs by Rodgers and Allen which are specifically engineered to church specs — if there is a MIDI interface on the organ, it was obviously meant to be used, and
2. In smaller meetinghouses (e.g. Branch chapels), the organ being installed is a small, 1M Rodgers which has all of the LDS hymns pre-programmed in, and they can be played at the touch of a button, when no organist is available to play. If your other organist is recuperating, and you’re busy directing the choir, I’d say you certainly fall into eligibility for pre-recorded accompaniment!
   

Eric — maybe now you can add a nice percussion and bass line to “Come, Come Ye Saints”




On 12/8/04 7:38 AM, Jim said something about:

I did something that I'm totally excited about!  Our ward has two
people who play the organ...me and an older man who has a swollen leg
& can't do it right now.  I am the choir director, and one of the
hymn medleys that I arranged for our Christmas program is with organ
accompaniment.  Since I wrote it out in Finale, it can play through a
MIDI connection.  

I took my computer to the church and plugged in the MIDI cables to
the organ, which also has a digital recorder.  I had my computer play
the song through the organ while I recorded the stop & volume changes
at the same time so now the organ will play our accompaniment all by
itself!  I'm a little nervous at how our bishop will react, but he
won't find out until we actually DO it!

Jim





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